Recorded, mixed & mastered on 06 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo. 

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Decaying A Little More Each Day” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0684: Early Bird. The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 684th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Early Bird — The Assignment: Record not so much an alarm as a guided wakening — at https://disquiet.com/0684/

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Decaying A Little More Each Day (disquiet0684)

Submission for Disquiet Junto 0684. Synths from Pure Data and Ableton. Field Recordings by me: dawn chorus in Humboldt State park, cottonwood leaves on the Van Duzen river, Cicadas on the Tsitsikamma Trail, South Africa, sounds of the Tilburg Textile Museum artists' workspace.

early birds (disquiet0684)

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 Feb 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synths, reverb, echo.

This original version of "You Have A Candy Inside" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 579, Mount Asama.

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

by: Yosa Buson

The event Bosun refers to is the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783, which instantly killed over 1,000 people. The toxic ash traveled 100 miles to Edo, making farmland useless and causing many more people to starve.

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Artwork/Photography - Jim Lemanowicz, 12 Mar 2016, Massapequa, NY, USA

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

You Have A Candy Inside (naviarhaiku579)

The track starts off with simulated bird sounds, courtesy of the Wing Pinger. Gradually, a C+ chord emerges, which is then joined by a bouncy sequence and eventually a rather standard techno beat, which will hopefully get one out of bed and onto the sidewalk for a good morning run. 

disquiet0684

Inspired by the haiku:

Mount Asama
amidst its fumes and ash
fresh young leaves!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku579-mount-asama/

from the ashes (naviarhaiku579)

using 20 resonance tones I recorded on a toy piano and acoustic guitar, I've responded to this week's @naviar-haiku music challenge, of which you can find details about here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Haiku by Fuhaku

Extract of picture by Ming Han Low

bell's voice (naviarhaiku580)

As @disquiet's project landed in my inbox I'd been working on ideas for a sound design I'm developing for a live artist's performance next month. That I was using percussion (Ultrabeat on Logic Pro X) fitted with the pick up sticks game, and I'd been playing with panning via automation, which also felt a good fit with the deft art of manoeuvring the sticks in the game.

More on the 685th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Pick-Me-Up — The Assignment: Treat a set of sounds like a game of pick up sticks — at https://disquiet.com/0685/

Pick-Me-Up (disquiet0685)

DANCE WITHOUT DANCERS

sadly, i cannot play piano. so, to create tracks like this, i play single notes to a click track at half speed and then double their bpm. this enables me to slowly create and layer sounds that i'm not able to play live...

this track is an amalgamation of three reworked melodies from the silent hill series: "the terminal show", "innocent moon", and "lost innocence". there are three pianos, an upright bass, a temple lyre, two female choirs, some live guitar, and a very quiet sample from SH2 ("help me"). i reduced the bpm from 136 to 124 in the middle section to make time gently suggest it's own terminus.

[naviarhaiku580] touching not

Naviar Haiku 580 as inspiration had me deciding to use a piece of our life space, the bell from the haiku, then a deconstruction of ethereal and other temple meditation type aspects to try and get us deeper into the haiku's many mind space avenues it offers. To leave you in a meditation type moment and then the piece evaporates around you leaving you sitting in the temple again hopefully. At any moment where it could turn into a melody quite easily I turn it away to a new path endlessly throughout. Imagine you can see a fish swimming up a stream, constantly changing it's path, like a leaf in the wind. Right now we are on an excursion to the temple mind set..... experience in your stillness-meditation personal moment for as long as the song lasts.

Temple Bells Voice   Naviarhaiku 580   Entanglement Mooser a - 2_16_25, 8.53 PM

What Child Is This

how the night came

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